{"id":1611,"date":"2021-11-11T09:36:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/?page_id=1611"},"modified":"2021-12-13T19:09:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T00:09:31","slug":"delilah-delgado","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/delilah-delgado\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAn Army of Lovers\u201d: Sappho\u2019s Influence on Second Wave Writers and Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt would be hard to think of another poet whose status is so disproportionate to the size of her surviving body of work,\u201d wrote Daniel Mendelsohn in his 2015 New Yorker<\/em> essay about the life of Sappho. An Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos\u2014from which the modern day word \u201clesbian\u201d originates\u2014the surviving fragments of Sappho\u2019s writing contain many mentions of female beauty and relationships between women. And although only pieces of her body of work remain today, she survives as a symbol of lesbian love that is very much apparent in the work of female poets and visual artists during Second Wave Feminism. Sappho\u2019s influence manifests in many different ways throughout the Second Wave\u2014from Echo of Sappho<\/em>, a periodical dedicated to her memory, to \u201cDear Sappho,\u201d an advice column featured in the journal The Lesbian Tide<\/em>, to a myriad of works, both writing and art, inspired by fragments of her poetry. Sappho\u2019s influence remains clear in the work of writers beyond the 1970s as well, as is apparent in the 2005 poem \u201cHubble Photographs: After Sappho,\u201d by prominent Second Wave poet Adrienne Rich. To this day, she remains a symbol of queer female love in poetry and visual art\u2014and through this project, I hope to uncover what exactly about her surviving work remained so captivating in the 1970s and beyond.<\/p>\n

-Delilah Delgado<\/p>\n

Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition: Judy Grahn’s Perspective<\/a><\/p>\n

Rita Mae Brown – “Sappho’s Reply”<\/a><\/p>\n

Echo of Sappho<\/a><\/p>\n

The Lesbian Tide<\/a><\/p>\n

Adrienne Rich – “Hubble Photographs: After Sappho”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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